Re: language as a cognitive parser

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Mon, 6 May 1996 10:27:48 -0400

Dale - Much of what you are trying to teach in public speaking
belongs in writing pedagogies. Perhaps new approaches to teaching
genres as activity-based (not recipes for text form) plus some
attention to "voice" in Bakhtin's sense will offer the vehicle
for integrating performative features of "thought" with the more
conventional features foregrounded in western intellectual tradition.
This raises a question I have on Arne's historical chart for CHAT -
which I'll reserve for another posting....

- Judy

At 09:06 AM 5/6/96 EDT, you wrote:
>Eve-- I like the dance-with-the-world visualization. For my purposes,
>there is a nice extension to the social thinking that goes on during
>communication. I teach public speaking, a pedagogy that has nearly died
>at the hands of the "scriptist bias." Students like the certainty of
>being able to capture words on paper and read them to an audience, but
>that has almost nothing to do with the process that I am trying to
>teach. Is this because my students are being indoctrinated during their
>K-12 education to understand thinking as an exclusively literate
>process?
>
>Regards, Dale Cyphert
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>dxc20 who-is-at psuvm.psu.edu/Department of Speech Communication/Penn State Univ
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Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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